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New Books List: 531 titles

  • Sex and Murder.Com

    Mark Richard Zubro / Mark Zubro

    Craig Lenzati, the rich and powerful CEO of Chicago's answer to Microsoft, is found brutally murdered with stab wounds all over his body. The murder is reported anonymously, and a quick and quiet resolution to the case is demanded by City Hall. Meanw...

  • Human Body

    Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld

    A simple introduction to the major parts of the human body shows how these parts work together to keep us alive, including basic explanations of the five senses, the brain, muscles and bones, digestion, and respiration. Original....

  • Where's Pooh?

    Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld

    Pooh’s friends are searching the Hundred-Acre Wood for him. But where, oh where, is that silly old bear? Lift the flaps to discover lots of surprises along the way to finding the ever-lovable Winnie
    the Pooh!...

  • Night of the Bat

    Paul Zindel

    When Indian workers begin to disappear from an expedition into the Amazon, fifteen-year-old Jake fears that his father, a bat biologist, is in great danger. Against his dad's wishes, Jake flies to Brazil and joins his father's research team, working ...

  • Ding-Dong, Trick or Treat!

    Harriet Ziefert

  • On Halloween Night

    Harriet Ziefert

  • What Color Is It?

    Pamela Zagarenski

  • The Man from Texas

    Rebecca York

    HE HAD COWBOY CHARISMA THAT OUGHTA BE CRIMINAL He'd woken up weeks ago in a seedy hotel room -- with no memory and a suitcase filled with cash. "Luke" knew nothing of his past, the money, or the killers who wanted it back. But with the reflexes of...

  • The Wolf Girls

    Jane Yolen; Heidi Elisabet Yolen Stemple

    In this eerie book from the nonfiction An Unsolved Mystery from History picture book series, travel to an Indian orphanage where two new arrivals are so wild that some claim they were raised by wolves.In 1920 a missionary brought two young girls to a...

  • Heverly

    Kevin Yagher

    When the kingdom of Heverly loses the strength of its king due to a wound by a golden serpent, Prince Eli must battle evil forces in the Valley of the Skulls to aid his father and save their homeland from certain doom....

  • Wait and See, Annie Lee

    Michelle Curry Wright

  • Courting the Enemy

    Sherryl Woods

    FOE...OR FIANCE? Karen Hanson's oldest friends, the Calamity Janes, urged her to sell her struggling ranch and pursue her lifelong dreams of travel. But the only bidder for her land was brooding, enigmatic Grady Blackhawk -- her late husband's wor...

  • Stormy Weather

    Paula L. Woods

    Despite her education and training, Charlotte Justice has concluded that being a black female in the Los Angeles Police Department is no day at the beach. Instead, the elite homicide detective's days are filled with incompetence, bigotry, and the may...

  • The Kyriakis Baby

    Sara Wood

    She will do anything to get her baby back Emma and Greek tycoon Leon Kyriakis had once shared an intense and passionate love, but their relationship had ended abruptly. Heartbroken, Emma had married Leon's younger brother on the rebound. But s...

  • Bats

    Lily Wood

    In a close-up look at the flying creatures of the night, kids will learn where bats live, what they eat, how they find prey by using echolocation, how they help people, and how people can help them. Original....

  • Skeletons

    Lily Wood

    An overview of the human skeletal system shows young readers how many bones make up the human body, what they are made of, how they grow, how they can be strengthened, and how they work together with muscles. Original....

  • Volcanoes

    Lily Wood

  • Murder in the Forecast

    Valerie Wolzien

    GONE WITH THE WIND With a signed contract in hand for remodeling the grandest old house on the island, contractor Josie Pigeon figures her summer is made. But before she can lift a hammer, she finds her new employer--wealthy New Yorker Cornell Hud...

  • The Curse of the Nile

    Dave Wolverton

    A cursed mummy looking for revenge . . .

    Alex O’Connell returns to Egypt for another exciting adventure that’s sure to please readers. It’s the fight of Alex’s life"and he’s determined to win....

  • The Day Ocean Came to Visit

    Diane Wolkstein

    Long ago, when Sun and Moon still lived on earth, they invited their new friend Ocean to visit their home. After many protests (after all, there was a lot of her), Ocean finally agreed to come. Sun and Moon worked and prepared for many days, but when...

  • Cackle Cook's Monster Stew

    Patricia Rae Wolff

  • My Private Detective

    Rebecca Winters

    Everyone should have a friend like Heidi Ellis. Dana Turner does. Dana's in prison for a murder she didn't commit -- and Heidi's determined to find out who did, determined to see Dana set free. But she has no idea how to go about it. Then, like...

  • Snow Day!

    Lorraine Winter

  • The Chronoliths

    Robert Charles Wilson

    Scott Warden is a man haunted by the past--and soon to be haunted by the future. In early twenty-first-century Thailand, Scott is an expatriate slacker. Then, one day, he inadvertently witnesses an impossible event: the violent appearance of a 200...

  • Teddy Bears' Trick-or-Treat

    Sam Williams

  • Cardiff Dead

    John Williams

    A page-turning mystery as funny as it is darkly atmospheric.

    Returning to the same territory that made his short story collection so compelling, John Williams explores the dark side of city life-the prostitutes, the drug dealers, the crooked...

  • As Good As Gold

    Bronwyn Williams
    in

    Bestselling authors Susan Mallery, Bronwyn, and Carolyn Davidson bring you three brand-new stories about Montana's most popular family -- the Kincaids, men and women who carved out lives in Big Sky Country and found true love in Whitehorn, Montana. ...

  • Bachelor Cop Finally Caught?

    Gina Wilkins / Gina Ferris / Gina Ferris Wilkins

    The Evening Star's Police Blotter: WANTED! Small-town reporter Lindsey Gray is being charged with stealing police chief Dan Meadows's heart. Ten years her senior, Chief ...

  • Full Moon

    Brian Wilcox

    For my birthday, Grandma sent me a crystal globe of the city where she lives. “If you look carefully, maybe you can see me,” she wrote. Late that night, I woke to find a full moon glowing in a starry sky. “To Grandma’s,” I shouted.

    S...

  • Wave and Die

    Stella Whitelaw

    In the sequel to Pray and Die, off-the-wall private investigator Jordan Lacey has progressed to cases of an entirely different class: from missing tortoises to stolen water lilies and vandalism at the Women's institute. But Sussex wives will be carel...

  • Secrets of the GS Ball

    Tracey West

    Catch this action-packed adventure about Ash, Pikachu, and their friends! This chapter book features classic characters featured on Netflix and in Pokémon Go.Ash heads to Azalea Town to battle for the Hive Badge. But first he has to finish a top-sec...

  • Junior's Leg

    Ken Wells

    Fifteen years after he tormented fellow students at Catahoula Bayou School, Junior Guidry is broke, drunk, one-legged, and living in a wreck of a trailer on the edge of a snake-infested swamp. He's survived an oil-rig accident that would've killed mo...

  • Devil in a Kilt

    Sue-Ellen Welfonder

    Hell was never so sweet... A FIERY ANGEL, A COLDHEARTED DEVIL, AND A MARRIAGE HOTTER THAN HELL! Linnet MacDonnell was the youngest of seven sisters, and not the family beauty. With her flame-bright red hair, sharp tongue, and strange gift of s...

  • A Very Precious Gift

    Meredith Webber

    A life-and-love decision... It all started with a plan to make Charles jealous--and it was all Nick David's idea. After a while, the plan ceased to be important. Protecting her heart from Nick's all-too-real advances was what really mattered to Dr...

  • Wedding Bells

    Meredith Webber

    Bells are ringing! William Alexander is convinced he needs to hear bells ringing to know he's truly in love. And with Dr. Prue Valentine around, he's hearing them a lot! William, an associate professor of physiotherapy, is at St. Elizabeth's for a...

  • Lost Soldiers

    James Webb

    Brandon Condley went to Vietnam and never quite came home. Instead, he fought and lost a war, loved and lost a woman, and fell in love with a country he could not save. Now Condley has returned to the teeming, tangled world of postwar Vietnam to sear...

  • Master of Maramba

    Margaret Way

    A tough man to resist Needing a bolt-hole where she can lick her wounds after a car accident has destroyed her budding career, Catrina Russell jumps at the chance of a job as governess on a North Queensland cattle station. Carrie wouldn't ...

  • Great American Ghost Stories

    Charles G. Waugh

  • To Love and Protect Her

    Margaret Watson

    Secret Agent Griff Fortune faced his greatest challenge when charged with the task of protecting Willa Simms. Her life was in his hands and to make certain she stayed alive, Griff moved her to a remote hideaway. Trapped together,Willa managed to pene...

  • The Ties That Bind

    Jude Watson

  • Giving Thanks

    Kate Waters

    Told by Dancing Moccasins, a 14-year-old Wampanoag boy, and Resolved White, a 6-year-old English boy, a fascinating historical book brings to life the harvest celebration between the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag people in 1621....

  • Big and Noisy Simon

    Joseph Wallace

  • Bub Moose

    Carol Wallace; Bill Wallace

    You think it's easy being a moose? Think again! Even though I'm big, I'm just a baby. I love my mother and my friends. Like Dudley, the beaver, who named me. And Snow, the little wolf, who loves to play tag. His family's another matter. What really ...

  • Harvest

    Kris Waldherr

  • Arresting God in Kathmandu

    Samrat Upadhyay

    From “a major new talent” come short stories set in modern Nepal, about arranged marriages, forbidden desires, and the universal yearning for human connection (Amitav Ghosh).   Set in a city where gods are omnipresent, privacy is elusive, an...

  • Arresting God in Kathmandu Pa

    Upadhyay

    From the first Nepali author writing in English to be published in the West, Arresting God in Kathmandu brilliantly explores the nature of desire and spirituality in a changing society. With the assurance and unsentimental wisdom of a long-establishe...

  • The Partnership

    Barry Unsworth

    Booker Prize-winning author Barry Unsworth's first novel, published for the first time in the United States. Foley and Moss are partners in a successful small business, making plaster pixies for the tourist trade. Foley is the artistic member of the ...

  • Just Say No!

    Omar Tyree

    Omar Tyree, New York Times and Blackboard bestselling author and winner of the 2001 NAACP Image Award for literary fiction, delivers a powerful story of two childhood friends lured into the sex, drugs, money, and madness of R&B stardom. Darin Ha...

  • Blood & Iron

    Harry Turtledove

    World War 1--The Great War--has ended, and an uneasy peace reigns around the world. Nowhere is it more fragile than on the continent of North America, where bitter enemies share a single landmass and two long, bloody borders. In the North, proud Cana...

  • Down The Knuckerhole

    Irene Trimble

    Max and Emmy can’t wait to see the fireworks show in Dragon Land, but the stadium is far away. Max insists on taking a “shortcut” through a knuckerhole leading to Zak and Wheezie’s home, but their friends aren’t there. Suddenly the shortcut...

  • What Will You Be for Halloween?

    Mark Todd

    What will you be for Halloween? Mark Todd answers that perennial question with eleven clever poems and illustrations.

    A mysterious mummy, groaning and moaning, bandaged from head to toe.
    What he looks like, only his mummy knows.

    A wi...

  • Awakening

    Cate Tiernan

    Wicca has changed my life. I've lost old friends, made new ones. Discovered my true heritage. Found love -- and betrayal. But there's so much more to learn. I know Wicca can be used for good or for evil. The hard part is knowing which is which. ...

  • Candle Bay

    Tamara Thorne

    DARK SECRET Perched on a fog-shrouded hillside high above an isolated California coastal town, the once-opulent inn was neglected for decades. Now restored to its former glory and filled with well-heeled guests, The Candle Bay Hotel and Spa owes its...

  • Brother of the Dragon

    Paul B. Thompson; Tonya Cook
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    On the ancient plains of Krynn arise new perils. The village of Yala-tene is flourishing. Twelve years of peace and plenty have allowed the little settlement to grow into a thriving town. But its peace is threatened--from within by an ambitious pr...

  • Trackdown

    David Thompson

  • The Path of Totality

    Audrey Thomas

    In the summer of 1806, a young Orkney woman disguised herself as a man and signed on with the Hudson's Bay Company to travel to what was then called Rupert's Land. For a year and a half she hid her identity and her deception was revealed only when sh...

  • The Huntsman

    Whitney Terrell

    The "searing" ("New York Times" Book Review) first novel by Whitney Terrell, author of" The Good Lieutenant" A "New York Times "Notable Book When a young debutante's body is pulled from the Missouri River, the inhabitants of Kansas City-a metropolis ...

  • Plain-Jane Princess

    Karen Templeton

    HIS TEMPORARY HOUSEKEEPER WAS... Incompetent! She couldn't cook, clean or operate The dishwasher. But Steven Koleski had to admit The mysterious woman did have a way with his newfound family...and his lonely heart. ...A PRINCESS! It was the opportu...

  • Red Beans and Vice

    Lou Jane Temple

    Heaven Lee has come to the Big Easy to get some much-needed vacation time away from her bustling Kansas City restaurant and cook up some dishes worthy of her name for the Sisters of the Holy Trinity's annual benefit dinner. But when the Sisters' priz...

  • The Boy Next Door

    Mary Anne Taylor

    Soon after young widow Samantha Richards and her son return to her hometown, she encounters Brad Davis, the boy who lived next door during her childhood. She had a mad crush on Brad while growing up and now finds him more attractive than ever. But th...

  • Foreign Body

    Kathleen Taylor

    BLAME CANADA? Ample-bodied, salty-tongued waitress Tory Bauer is no longer taking orders from anyone -- now that she has become co-owner of the only cafe in tiny Delphi, South Dakota. And since corpses on the premises are bad for business, Tory is...

  • Enemy Within

    Robert K. Tanenbaum

    New York: The city erupts in chaos when a black man is shot in the back by an NYPD "golden boy" street cop. As chief assistant district attorney Butch Karp soon discovers, certain higher-ups would rather whitewash the truth than lose votes in the upc...

  • Occasion of Revenge

    Marcia Talley

    The bride thought they'd live happily ever after -- until a murderer struck.... The guests were off the wall. The would-be groom was off the wagon. And the bride certainly wasn't blushing. Aside from that, it was the perfect occasion: a party f...

  • His Baby, Her Heart

    Sue Swift

    WHERE THERE'S A WILL... THERE'S A BABY? Outwardly icy Alex Chandler would do anything to fulfill his late wife Tamara Cohen Chandler's dream of creating a child. But why had she chosen her earthy, annoying, offbeat half sister to be th...

  • The Da Vinci Deception

    Thomas Swan

    Celebrated thriller writer Thomas Swan introduces Scotland Yard Inspector Jack Oxby in The Da Vinci Deception -- an exhilarating thriller set in the art world. Racing from London to New York to Lake Como, Inspector Oxby is on the hunt for an art forg...

  • Beauty in His Bedroom

    Ashley Summers

    When Clint Whitfield returned to his Texas estate after two years away, he didn't expect to find a sultry redhead cooking in his kitchen. All love-wary Clint wanted was som...

  • The Amazing Halloween Maze Book

    Scott Sullivan

    This amazingly intricate maze book will delight puzzle fans of all ages as they make their way through each twist and turn. With original mazes featuring Halloween designs and other images appropriate for the season, this is a perfect gift for any pu...

  • The Widow

    Anne Stuart

    Aristide Pompasse is dead. But the evil in the great artist's soul still haunts the vineyards and lurks in the corners of his Tuscan villa. Known as much for his fabulous portraits as his penchant for young mistresses, Pompasse had not let anyone go ...

  • Black Water Transit

    Carsten Stroud

    Jack Vermillion is seeing red. So is Earl V. Pike. So is a smart, beautiful NYC detective named Casey Spandau. For Jack, it began when Earl asked for a little favor--one former soldier to another. With Jack's son in serious trouble with the law and h...

  • The Last Vampire

    Whitley Strieber

    Miriam Blaylock knows the secrets of civilization, the mysteries of life--and the agony of undeath. For centuries she has traveled the world undetected. Until now. Interpol agent Paul Ward has cleansed continents of vampires, orchestrated the extermi...

  • Hazard's Price

    Robert S. Stone

    Long ago, a brutal war between the countries of Chaldus and Yndor left the mages with blood on their hands. To rid the world of destructive magic, they performed the Binding--and vowed that never again would a magical war be fought upon the land. But...

  • Prized Possessions

    Jessica Stirling

    Glasgow during the Depression. Lizzie Conway has clawed her way out of the slums of the Gorbals despite the crippling debt left behind by a long-vanished husband. Lizzie sacrifices her own chance of happiness to break the endless round of poverty tha...

  • No Survivors

    R.L. Stine

    Twelve ultra-smart, ultra-competitive kids have been selected to take part in a survival competition called Life Games.Not only will they have to overcome the dangers of life on a tropical island, they'll also have to face the evil presence that live...

  • The Tempted

    Amanda Stevens

    FORBIDDEN LOVER The frightened woman standing before millionaire Jared Spencer hardly looked like the housekeeper's spirited daughter who'd once captured his heart then betrayed him. But the moment their gazes met, he felt the same fiery, forbidde...

  • A to Z Aliens

    Monique Z. Stephens

  • The Cottage

    Sandra Steffen

    When Cale Wilder crashed his Cessna into Dawsons Hollow, Georgia during a thunderstorm, it seemed as if another piece of his life had shattered. His beloved wife had died and his grieving son, Daniel, had run away, yet Cale wasn't about to give in to...

  • Here Be Monsters

    Christopher Stasheff

    A FAMILY THAT SLAYS TOGETHER STAYS TOGETHER Love is in the air as the planet of Gramarye gets ready to celebrate the weddings of Geoffrey, Cordelia, and Gregory Gallowglass all at once. But when Alouette, Gregory's fiancee, has a horrible vision o...

  • The Widow's Little Secret

    Judith Stacy

    Lawman Jared McQuaid Was At The End Of His Rope! Mattie Ingram -- the love of his life and the mother of his child -- was the most stubborn, independent, contrary woman in Nevada. And in the lonely months since he'd seen her, he'd discove...

  • White Lion's Lady

    Tina St. John

    In this captivating tale of forbidden love and star-crossed destiny by award-winning author Tina St. John, a dangerous knight on a rogueâ,"s mission is reunited with the virtuous young lady who once adored him. . . .

    She was promised to a...

  • What Rough Beast

    Harry R. Squires

    It's 1903. Harry Houdini, the great escape artist, seeks the help of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, to discredit Maximillian Cairo, an infamous occultist and the most debauched man in London. But the two men get more than they ba...

  • Lightning Field

    Dana Spiotta

    *A New York Times Notable Book and Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year*From the National Book Award nominated author of Innocents and Others and Wayward, a “wonderfully funny, accomplished, and far-reaching first novel about our consumer coloss...

  • Lost and Found

    Jerry Spinelli

  • Kittycat Lullaby

    Eileen Spinelli

    Having had a busy day scaring mice and swatting at yarn balls, Kittycat settles down to purr a drowsy purr and go to sleep, in a lyrical poem that will help little kitties and children drift into peaceful slumber....

  • Jack Cole and Plastic Man: Forms Stretched to Their Limits

    Art Spiegelman

    Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and illustrator Art Spiegelman joins forces with designer Chip Kidd to pay homage to the comic book hero Plastic Man and his creator, Jack Cole. Plastic Man is more than just a putty face--with his bad-boy past, he liter...

  • Carlo Likes Reading

    Jessica Spanyol

    This engaging story celebrates the joy of learning to read.

    "Carlo reads to Crackers the cat.
    Carlo reads with his friend Nevil.
    Carlo reads to a baby."
    Carlo the giraffe likes reading -- and wherever he goes, Carlo reads everything h...

  • Dinosaurs and Dragons

    Margaret Snyder

    Max just loves dinosaurs! One day while in Dragon Land, he happens upon an egg that’s about to hatch. When it hatches and a baby dragon appears, Max wonders if maybe it just might be a baby dinosaur. Ord helps him figure out that it’s a baby drag...

  • False Witness

    R.L. Smitten

  • Augur's Teacher

    Sherwood Smith


    Cece Robin is a simple fourth-grade schoolteacher. A chance meeting with a splinter group of the Resistance changes her life. She would never dream of getting involved in their plot to assassinate the Taelon leader Zo'or she'd never kill anyone-n...

  • Doctor in Demand

    Karen Rose Smith

    TO BEGIN AGAIN A tragic accident had taken everything from Dane Cameron -- his wife, his child, even his skill as a surgeon -- so he'd come here to the New Mexico desert to practice a different kind of medicine. He was searching for a new beginnin...

  • No Good Deed

    Dean Wesley Smith; Kristine Kathryn Rusch

    "Save my child. Save Katie." Michael has been taken, kidnapped by a frantic father in a desperate move to save his dying daughter. Chad Newcomb is sure Michael was the one who performed last Christmas' miracle, healing ill children in a hospital. ...

  • Halloween Parade

    Jerry Smath

    Maya dresses as a princess and her brother Tim as a knight, and the two join the other neighborhood children in a parade to show off all the different kinds of costumes and in other Halloween festivities....

  • Pale Shadow

    Robert Skinner

    Autumn, 1940 -- Linda Blanc is found tortured to death in her Gentilly home. New Orleans' Police Sergeant Israel Daggett can't make anything of the black woman's death until a Treasury Agent arrives on the scene. He lets Daggett know that Linda was t...

  • The Blue Devil

    Melynda Beth Skinner

    On the hunt for a spy, he found love instead... NO MISSION HAD EVER BEEN AS TEMPTING... When Kathryn St. David arrives in London for a season under her formidable aunt Ophelia's patronage, her first surprise is a masked ball in honor of her a...

  • Dog Company Six

    Edwin Howard Simmons

    A Marine who wielded both pen and sword in a long, distinguished career captures the heroism and horror of the early days of the Korean War in this gripping novel. As a young man -- with his own experiences in the war still vivid in his mind -- Simmo...

  • Master of Life and Death

    Robert Silverberg

    By the 23rd century Earth's population had reached seven billion. Mankind was in danger of perishing for lack of elbow room--unless prompt measures were taken. Roy Walton had the power to enforce those measures. But though his job was in the service...

  • Santa in Space

    Jack Silbert

    The inhabitants of the planet Krelb celebrate Christmas by decorating huge ornaments with tiny trees, but they still get a visit from Santa, even if he does have to add a team of rocket-powered squirrels to help the reindeer....

  • Any Kind Of Luck

    William Jack Sibley

    Manhattan hand model Clu Latimore, along with his lover Chris, returns to his hometown, where he is faced with a variety of dilemmas, from his dying mother and her impending marriage to a Mexican-American evangelist to a production of "Agamemnon--the...

  • Second Chances

    Susan Shwartz

    In a departure for this very well-reviewed fantasist, Susan Shwartz has returned to her science fiction roots with a riveting novel of honor and its loss, love and its betrayal, and the exploration of what it means to be a true hero. What Susan Shwar...

  • Lord of the Plains

    Velda Sherrod

    To save her sister, saloon singer Kate Hartland plays the hundred-dollar whore. Trembling in her innocence, she seduces a handsome outsider who appears safe, kind, and Irish. But the virile stranger turns out to be anything but safe. He awakens a dan...

  • Girl Talk With God

    Susie Shellenberger

  • Oh, Nose!

    Dennis Shealy

  • Immortality

    Maggie Shayne
    in

    Love, Supernatural Style Love is the universal language. And nowhere is this more apparent than in these extraordinary stories from four of today's hottest authors. From a futuristic cop caught in a crisis of the heart to a smoldering vision of a...

  • Cherokee Justice

    Jon Sharpe

    When an old friend is shot down while tracking a gang of vicious outlaws, a vengeful Skye Fargo sets out to even the score with the man responsible, a dangerous desperado named Mustang Jack McGhee. Original....

  • Blind Date Disasters

    Jill Shalvis

    Two unsuspecting men run into trouble -- double trouble! -- when they tangle with the unpredictable Anderson twins... BLIND DATE DISASTERS WHEN ONE IS MORE THAN ENOUGH! As an interior designer and an identical twin, Cami Anderson wants her home ...

  • Eat Your Heart Out

    Jill Shalvis

    Two unsuspecting men run into trouble -- double trouble! -- when they tangle with the unpredictable Anderson twins... EAT YOUR HEART OUT NOW WE'RE REALLY COOKING! Dimi Anderson may be a TV personality, but she's never had the pizzazz possessed b...

  • Undercover Sultan

    Alexandra Sellers

    THE SHEIKH AND LADY SPY Sheikh Haroun al Muntazir was honor-bound to recover a priceless family jewel...but what was lovely operative Mariel de Vouvray's mission? Until her motives were made plain, he had to keep her close -- yet at a distance. Bu...

  • Eagle Dancer

    Theresa (1) Scott

    Bound and helpless, the blue-eyed prisoner is an enemy of her people. One who is going to die. But his powerful gaze tells Hope his spirit is strong, and suddenly she knows this man has a part in her future. Baron's will to live had fled during the C...

  • The Incomparable Miss Compton

    Regina Scott

    He sought the perfect wife -- until love broke all the rules. AN INDEPENDENT LADY Tired of being beholden to relatives, Sarah Compton jumped at the chance to gain a life of her own -- even if, in exchange, she had to guide her beautiful, headstro...

  • Loving Thy Neighbor

    Ruth Scofield

    LOVING THY NEIGHBOR... When Quincee Davis moved into a house in order to raise her late sister's two children, she was less than thrilled to discover that Hamilton Paxton -- the judge who had suspended her driver's license -- lived right next door...

  • The Doctor's Miracle

    Anna Schmidt

    WHAT NEXT, LORD? Torn about her future, gospel singer Rachel Duke had asked God to send some sort of sign to guide Her on a new path. Enter Paul McCoy, a world-weary doctor who had found his way back home from strife-ridden Kosovo, but not back to...

  • It's My City!: A Singing Map

    April Pulley Sayre

  • McMillian's Matchmakers

    Gail Sattler

    Twenty-five-year-old Josh McMillian has become the legal guardian of his five active nephews, ages six to fifteen--and he's in way over his head. Josh struggles to find time for himself as he cares for the boys, cooks, cleans, and acts as referee, al...

  • The Thief of Hearts

    Lynda Sandoval

    Rogue To The Rescue Iso Pacias had been happily coasting through life as a confirmed--and contented--bachelor. But the day he stopped to help the victims of a highway pileup, everything changed. He found the woman of his dreams...dreams he wasn't ev...

  • A Full Recovery

    Gill Sanderson

    Tender loving care Ben Franklin knows that Jo Wilde needs support and friendship. She's recovering from 'a broken heart as well as an accident. If he's to convince this beautiful woman to love again he must be very patient. He succeeds. Eventually ...

  • Girlfriends

    Patrick Sanchez

    This wickedly witty, urbane novel tackles the ups and downs of female friendship, and the ultimate question for every young woman searching for the perfect job, apartment, and man--or woman--in the big city: What's a nice girl like you doing with a l...

  • Christmas Soul: African American Holiday Stories

    Allison Samuels

    With original stories by Debbie Allen, Halle Berry, Jamie Foxx, Whitney Houston, D.L. Hughley, Monica, and more. In this collection of poignant and witty original stories, African American celebrities recount their favorite childhood Christmas memori...

  • Something About Eve

    Debra Salonen

    Eve Masterson is missing... The successful, attractive TV personality quit her prestigious network job in New York for a mysterious "dream job" in Atlanta. Now she seems to have vanished from the airwaves, and nobody's heard from her in weeks. Th...

  • A Secret for Julia

    Patricia Sagastizabal

    Much ofA Secret for Julia reads like a personal diary, yet Sagastizabal propels it forward with elements of astonishing intrigue, drama, and terror. The savage murders and tortures that came to decimate an entire generation of Argentinian students an...

  • God of the Golden Fleece

    Fred Saberhagen

    When Proteus crawls from the sea, brain dam-aged from a fight with a terrible giant, all he can put together from his shattered memory is that he was sent to aid Jason and the Argonauts on their incredible mission. As he joins them on their quest, Pr...

  • Gingerbread Man

    Bonnie Rutherford

  • Pascal's Wager

    Nancy Rue

    Confirmed atheist Jill McGavock faces the mental deterioration of her brilliant mother. In a quest to cope with this devastating situation, Jill seeks out philosophy professor Sam Hunt. Savvy Sam challenges Jill to make "Pascal's wager" -- to "bet" t...

  • ... and for Starters

    Victoria Routledge

  • Legends Lake

    JoAnn Ross

    In the exclusive world of horse racing, Alec MacKenna is known as a hardheaded trainer who cares more for an animal's welfare than the financial bottom line. After a public altercation with a callous owner leaves his career on the brink of ruin, Alec...

  • Miss Julia Takes Over

    Ann B. Ross

    Take another unforgettable spin through the South with the steeliest of magnolias In her fictional debut, Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind, Miss Julia's orderly world was turned upside down when Hazel Marie Puckett appeared with her nine-year-old son, Lit...

  • Company of Thieves

    Gil Roscoe

    One Last Con... Ex-grifter Warren Allison has it all. A legit job, cash in the bank, and a loving girlfriend. His whole future is ahead of him--until a shady woman from his past offers him the con of a lifetime. But Warren's about to learn, the ha...

  • A Wife for Owen Chase

    Kristine Rolofson

    When the annual Matchmaking Festival gets going in Bliss, Montana, the folks there know to just go along with it -- everyone, that is, except loner Owen Chase. He's the onl...

  • Baby of Fortune

    Shirley Rogers

    WOOING A WIFE... Justin Bond knew all about forging steel ties, but human bonds were another matter -- especially when it came to winning back his wife! And with Heather agreeing to accompany him to Texas to meet his Fortune relatives, he'd reluct...

  • The Loner

    Evelyn Rogers

    In the midst of the vast, windswept Texas plains stands a ranch wrested from the wilderness with blood, sweat and tears. It is the shining legacy of Thomas McBride to his five living heirs. But along with the fertile acres and herds of cattle, each w...

  • The Buddha Book

    Abraham Rodriguez

    Dinky, Jose, and Barbara are teens living in the Bronx. Dinky wants to put his father's drug dealing reputation behind him; Jose has just been dumped by his girlfriend who's moved on to the neighborhood's new drug dealer, Angel; Barbara's the smart g...

  • Winter Kill

    Frank Roderus

    They thought he was too old to fight back. They thought he was too tired to care. They thought wrong. Old Jug had been a ranch hand for more years than even he could remember -- and he wasn't getting any younger. Though not as quick or tough as he u...

  • Dread Mountain

    Emily Rodda

    Deltora is a land of monsters and magic… The Shadow Lord dominates the land of Deltora. Only Lief, Barda, and Jasmine can save it from his evil powers. To do this, they must restore all seven gems to the magic Belt of Deltora. Four gems have been...

  • Morgan Plays Soccer

    Anne Rockwell

    Morgan Brownbear's new friend Nina Jane Monkey loves soccer so much that soon Morgan is sure he wants to play too. But soccer has a lot of rules, and Morgan keeps breaking the most important one of all: He can't seem to stop catching the ball with...

  • Me and My Dog

    Maxine A. Rock

    Whether your dog is a new addition or an old family pet, this book will help you understand you four-legged friend. From quizzes and fun facts to training tips and expert advice, you'll learn how to keep your dog's tail wagging! And there's a speci...

  • The Free Lunch

    Spider Robinson

    PERIL IN PARADISE Under the facade of the world's finest theme park lies a secret which could alter the course of human history. Mike and Annie, refugees from the world outside, find a home underground, behind the scenes of Dreamworld, a theme pa...

  • Now & Always

    Laura Peyton Roberts

    Who’s about to say “I do” in Clearwater Crossing?

    Caitlin and David are engaged! Jenna has lots of great ideas to help make Caitlin’s
    special day perfect. If only Cat would listen!

    Ben is head over heels about Bernie, and sh...

  • SPQR // The King's Gambit

    John Maddox Roberts

    FOR THE SENATE AND PEOPLE OF ROME... They were evil times for the great Republic of Crassus and Pompey-- when vicious gangs ruled the streets, routinely preying on plebeian and patrician alike. So the garroting of a lowly ex-slave and the disembow...

  • Interlude in Death

    J.D. Robb
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    In early spring of 2059, Lieutenant Eve Dallas is called off-planet to face a grueling ordeal - giving a seminar at the largest police conference of the year, to be held in a swanky resort. A resort which just happens to be owned by her husband, Roar...

  • The Marriage Agreement

    Christine Rimmer

    "YOU'RE GOING TO LOVE IT -- THE REDHEAD'S SURPRISE." His dying father's wickedly whispered words sent memories spinning in Marsh Bravo's mind.... He and Victoria Winningham learning about love in the backseat of his old Plymouth Duster. The fina...

  • Krindlekrax

    Philip Ridley

    Ruskin Splinter is small and thin, with knock-knees, thick glasses and a squeaky voice, and the idea of him taming a dragon makes the whole class laugh. Big, strong Elvis is stupid but he looks like a hero. So who is more likely to get the big part i...

  • Here Comes Winter!

    RH/Disney

    When Christopher Robin announces that Winter is coming, Pooh decides to throw a welcome party for the new visitor. Soon everyone in the Hundred -- Acre Wood is preparing for Winter's arrival -- that is, until Christopher Robin explains that winter is...

  • Masked Ball

    RH/Disney

    The King has invited everyone in the kingdom to a masked ball. Cinderella’s stepsisters don’t want her there, but Cinderella hopes to attend unnoticed. She has a wonderful time -- until everyone is asked to remove their masks!...

  • Who's Hiding?

    RH/Disney

  • Magic of Faerun

    Sean K. Reynolds
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Discover the Power and Master the Art

    Magic pervades Faerun. This guide explores the hidden lore and secrets of magic in the Forgotten Realms game setting. From the history of magic to magical variants (including gem magic, spellfire, and the ...

  • The Unforgettable Husband

    Michelle Reid

    Is this stranger really her husband? For a year, Samantha has been existing with no memory of her previous life. But when a dark, stunningly handsome Italian walks into her life, Sam's past is about to be revealed.... When Sam sees Andre Vi...

  • The Beasts of Barakhai

    Mickey Zucker Reichert

    When grad student Benton Collins tries to recapture an escaped lab rat, he's led through a maze into a world not his own. Just how different the land of Barakhai is Ben doesn't discover until he's been arrested for a horrific crime. For Barakhai is p...

  • Need for Speed

    Elizabeth M. Rees

    When Elliot fails in his efforts to join the track team, no matter how hard he tries to run faster, Nick's magic jersey helps him become Michael Johnson, the fastest man alive, while his friend Coleman seeks success as a trombonist....

  • The Free Fall

    Jane Ratcliffe

    When her family begins to fall apart, sixteen-year-old Let is torn between two interesting and unconventional boys, as she slides into the dark side of alcohol, illegal drugs, and sexual activity in the wealthy suburbs of Detroit. A first novel....

  • The One That Got Away

    Naomi Rand

    It may be the hottest summer in New York history, but for forty-year-old Brooklynite Emma Price, the heat is only starting to rise. After a dozen years, her husband is bailing on their marriage. To complicate matters, she's pregnant again. The her lo...

  • Her Guardian Agent

    Terese Ramin

    HE WAS BIG AND DANGEROUS AND SAFE-LOOKING ALL AT ONCE. Six foot plus of hard-hewn Native American, Guy Levoie was a tracker -- a man with a hunter's instinct -- and Hazel's only hope. FBI Special Assistant Hazel Youvella had known returning to ...

  • A Prince of a Guy

    Sheila Rabe

    MUSCLING IN Psychologist Kate Stonewall's cup of happiness is just about full: she has two great kids, a successful career, and her own radio show. The only fly in her soup is her colleague Jeff Hardin--a sports show host who Kate wishes would just ...

  • Planet of the Apes

    William T. Quick

    Trillions of miles from an Earth in political and ecological turmoil, Captain Leo Davidson has crash landed on a different world -- a terrifying place where people are in chains...and apes rule. Here, beneath twin suns, humans are lower creatures to ...

  • Jessie's Wedding

    Kathryn Quick

    Jessie O'Brien had known Jarrett Collins since they were children at her aunt's wedding. They dated throughout their adolescence and early twenties, until Jarrett left her. Now Jessie, older and wiser, has overcome the pain of Jarrett leaving and g...

  • Black Panther: The Client

    Christopher J. Priest

    Sent to pick up King T'Challa of Wakanda, a.k.a. the Black Panther, U.S. State Department employee Everett Ross recounts his journey from Brooklyn to Hell and back again as the king tries to stop a conspiracy that could destroy his kingdom....

  • Scooby-Doo Halloween

    Price Stern Sloan Publishing

    Bring the Scooby-Doo gang along for your Halloween adventures! Back for another round of MAD LIBS(r) fun, Scooby, Shaggy, and the rest of the gang team up with MAD LIBS(r) for their funniest Halloween adventures yet!...

  • Pumpkin Moon

    Tim Preston

  • Krelboyne Parrot

    Pam Pollack

  • Livewire

    Berta Platas

    Nothing But The Truth As a private investigator, Candela Escovedo knows how to read between the lines...and she knows instinctively that the client who just walked in isn't giving her the whole story. Alfonso Rivera is maddeningly uninformative--and...

  • Elephant Elephant: A Book of Opposites

    Francesco Pittau

  • A Lady's Mischief // The No Good Irresistible Viscount Tipton

    Barbara Pierce

    A Man's Heart Fifteen years ago, a strange twist of fate made Rayne Wyman both the Viscount Tipton and a notorious outcast. Now a practicing surgeon, even Rayne's vow of revenge has not tempted him to reenter the polite world, and he is certain that...

  • Party of Three

    Joan Elliott Pickart

    She needed him. For not even her close-knit family could protect Jessica MacAllister from the danger that surrounded her. Lieutenant Dan Quinn might have been a ...

  • Noah and the Devil

    Neil Philip

  • Weave Little Stars Into My Sleep

    Neil Philip

    These beautiful and tender lullabies combine Native American themes with universal concerns of parenthood. Collected from the Native American peoples of the Northeast (Ojibwa), the Plains (Arapaho, Kiowa, Pawnee, Crow), the Southwest (Hopi, Acoma, Yu...

  • Ashes and Ice

    Tracie Peterson

    WILL THE FAITH THAT HAS BROUGHT HER SO FAR SUSTAIN HER IN THE FACE OF TRAGEDY? When heartache and loss invade Karen Pierce's care-fully ordered world, she is devastated. Her plans and dreams for the future seem distant and unattainable, and she is...

  • Walt Disney's Babes In Toyland

    Monique Peterson

    This cherished holiday classic takes readers on a nostalgic trip back to Toyland. Originally published as a Golden Book in 1961, Babes in Toyland features artwork created by Earl and Carol Marshall of the Disney Studios. Based on the operetta by Vict...

  • Flirting With Danger

    Kayla Perrin

    Let Go of the Past... Monique Savard's flawless dark skin and sculpted cheekbones may have made her one of New York's hottest fashion models, but she came to the city with an entirely different goal in mind. Desperate to unravel the sixteen-year-old...

  • The Broken Places

    Susan Perabo

    Susan Perabo's short-story collection, Who I Was Supposed to Be, was named a Best Book of 1999 by the Los Angeles Times, The Miami Herald, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The Boston Globe proclaimed the debut "a stunning introduction to a fresh new ...

  • Uforce

    Don Pendleton

    DEEP BLACK An ultra-secret government black ops agency known as UFORCE goes rogue -- sending shock waves through Washington's most covert circles. Mack Bolan is part of the clandestine mission to contain the threat. going undercover as a journalis...

  • Vector Three

    Don Pendleton

    POWER SWEEP Stony Man is the President's secret weapon against global terrorism. The agency's crack cybernetics and commando teams combat the blood tide of violence and evil preying on the free world. When the White House gives top priority to hal...

  • A Golden Trail of Murder

    John Paxson

    Montana winters are cold, icy and unforgiving. But when a tough old rancher freezes to death in the teeth of a savage Montana blizzard, only his grandson believes it was murder. He enlists the help of former newshound and sometimes-carpenter Ben Trip...

  • The Golden Sword

    Fiona Patton

    CAMDEN DEKATHRINE had been destined by birth and tradition to serve the Flame, the supreme power in the kingdom of Branion. But it was not the Flame which called to him, it was the Wind. Drawn to this Aspect yet forced to keep his talent secret, Cam ...

  • Marvin One Too Many

    Katherine Paterson

    Share the love of reading with your beginner reader!

    I Can Read books are widely recognised as the premier line of beginner readers. Inaugurated in 1957 with Else Holmelund Minarik's Little Bear, illustrated by Maurice Sendak, the series...

  • Road Trip

    Francine Pascal

    Jeremy wants to get his family settled in their new town. Conner wants to get over Alanna. And me? I just want to get as far away from Sweet Valley as possible. I have a feeling this is one winter break none of us will ever forget....

  • Interrupted Lullaby

    Valerie Parv

    SHE HAD BORNE HIM A CHILD IN SECRET... A child taken from her loving arms too soon. So Tara McNiven swallowed her tears, bolstered her pride, and vowed never to let Zeke Blaxland know about the family that might have been.... But when Zeke burs...

  • Suspicion of Vengeance

    Barbara Parker

    Years ago, the brutal murder of a young wife and mother rocked the quiet coastal town of Stuart, Florida, and a local troublemaker was sentenced to death for the crime. Now new evidence has come to light, and Miami attorney Gail Conner agrees to take...

  • Getting Lucky

    Marilyn Pappano

    A MAN WITH NOTHING LEFT TO LOSE Rebel. Hell-raiser. Seducer in blue jeans. Ben Foster has been called many things--except father. His twelve-year-old daughter Alanna has never seen him, and he's starting to think that coming to Bethlehem to meet h...

  • My Name Is Red

    Orhan Pamuk

    The Nobel Prize winner and one of today's most prominent contemporary Turkish writers delivers a novel that is a fiendishly devious mystery, a beguiling love story, a brilliant symposium on the power of art, and a “modern classic … rich and essen...

  • The Thirteenth Life of Frank Finnigan

    Rebekah Palmer

  • The Texas Ranger

    Diana Palmer

    He is a true Texas Ranger A man of integrity with a soul of steel -- pursuing honor and justice is as natural as breathing in Marc Brannon's line of work. Called to the scene of a high-profile murder, finds himself pitted against the vibrant -...

  • Fantastic Four: Flesh and Stone

    Carlos Pacheco

    As Reed faces bankruptcy and Ben--the Thing--experiences great personal turmoil, they, along with Sue and Johnny, must fight to protect the world against supervillains including Diablo, Super Skrull, and the Grey Gargoyle....

  • Wolves

    Carolyn B. Otto

    An introduction to these strong, beautiful animals help kids understand how they hunt, travel in packs, communicate, and care for their young as well as reviewing their endangered status and how laws helped bring the numbers back. Original....

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  • Bucking the Tiger

    Bruce Olds

    An American Library Association Notable Book

    John Henry Holliday was an Ivy League-educated dentist from a genteel Georgia family when at the age of twenty-one he was diagnosed with consumption and given six months to live. Instead, over th...

  • What Does Love Look Like?

    Janette Oke

    Emily is shy on the first day at her new school, but when the teacher asks everyone to draw a picture of love and the children share their ideas, Emily finally feels comfortable enough to share her idea of God's love....

  • When Tomorrow Comes

    Janette Oke

    Christine and her older brother, Henry, grew up in the Delaney family as loved and nurtured as if they had been born to Elizabeth and Wynn. Now adults, they are ready to make new lives for themselves. Henry has found love and is planning a wedding....

  • Bruja

    Mel Odom

    Even if it takes an eternity, he will make amends.... The Witching Hour Los Angeles is stunned when a priest is attacked by a woman who confesses to having murdered her own son. At the same time, Angel Investigations turns up reports of a madwoman...

  • The Rover

    Mel Odom

    Edgewick Lamplighter (Wick to his friends) is a humble librarian in the isolated halls of Greydawn Moors until dreams of wanderlust and a bit of dereliction in his duties result in his being shanghaied to a far-off land.Captured by pirates, sold into...

  • Days of Awe

    Achy Obejas

    On New Year's Day 1959, as Fidel Castro seized power in Cuba, Alejandra San José was born in Havana, entering the world through the heart of revolution. Fearing the conflict and strife that bubbled up in the streets all around the new family, her pa...

  • Beyond Valor

    Patrick K. O'Donnell

    The thrilling story of the Airborne and Ranger troops that saw the worst of WWII action -- told for the first time in the voices of the soldiers themselves.From the first parachute drops in North Africa to the final battles in Germany, U.S. Ranger an...

  • The Ireland Anthology

    George O'Brien

    Reggie Nadelson, an American journalist and documentary filmmaker living in London, has created a fascinating character for her first mystery: Artie Cohen, a New York cop who was Artemy Maximovich Otalsky before he left Russia as a teenager. Arti...

  • Playing for Keeps

    Joan Lowery Nixon

    For fans of Gillian Flynn, Caroline Cooney, and R.L. Stine comes Playing for Keeps from four-time Edgar Allen Poe Young Adult Mystery Award winner Joan Lowery Nixon.          Rose Ann can’t believe her good luck. Her grandm...

  • Into Battle

    Garth Nix

    The Dark World is in danger, for the Veil is vulnerable. War is soon to come. On one side are Tal and the Underfolk rebels, struggling valiantly for freedom. On another side are Milla and the Icecarls, preparing to assault the Castle in order to pres...

  • Smoke-Filled Rooms

    Kris Nelscott

    It's a long, hot summer in 1968. After escaping Memphis with Jimmy, a ten-year-old boy who witnessed the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., P.I. Smokey Dalton hopes to start a new life in Chicago. Their new beginning is shattered by the events...

  • The Doctor's Girl // Marrying a Doctor

    Betty Neels

    Loveday West was thrilled when Dr. Andrew Fforde offered her a job as his temporary receptionist. She hadn't expected to fall in love with him -- but he was just so handsome and charming! But was her place in his life as temporary as her contract?...

  • O Gentle Death

    Janet Neel

    Faraday Trust, a fashionably liberal boarding school with a reputation for musical excellence is struggling in the face of exams. Poor test scores have prompted several withdrawals, and as a result, the trustees are beginning to worry. The headmaster...

  • My Wicked Earl

    Linda Needham

    A DANGEROUS LORD Forced to live with her enemy! Hollie Finch is horrified when the forbidding Earl of Everingham Lord Charles Stirling, places her under house arrest in his manor. Well, he may suspect her of sedition, but to her it's just freedom ...

  • Gargoyles

    Alan Nayes

    In the tradition of Robin Cook and Richard Preston, Alan Nayes has written an absorbing, terrifying novel about what happens when human beings have the ability to save their own lives … but only by changing the face of humanity. Brilliant pre-me...

  • The Scam of the Screwball Wizards

    Bill Myers

    Are There Really Such Things as Witches and Wizards? What's going on in the abandoned theater on the outskirts of Midvale? Have monsters really invaded Mrs. Tubbs' home? Is Slobs, the trusted bloodhound, next? Likeable, easy-going Bear isn't ...

  • The Infidel

    Joe Musser

    When slave ship captain John Newton, a faithless wretch of a man who lived life in opposition to the Gospel, has an encounter with a life-changing grace, it moves him to write one of the most endearing and enduring hymns of the Christian faith. Origi...

  • Captain Invincible and the Space Shapes:Three Dimensional Shapes

    Stuart J. Murphy

    Captain Invincible and his intrepid space-dog, Comet, are on a perilous journey back to Earth!

    Throughout their mission, the fearless captain and his canine sidekick encounter asteroids, poisonous gas, and alien bei...